IMHO, the top way to get better is to code a lot in a space you’re unfamiliar with. And make it a substantial project, not just some little toy thing. If you want to learn mobile dev, choose an app you want to clone, and start working on it. It will be slow and painstaking going, but you’ll learn a ton.

When you’re stuck, don’t AI. Use standard search because you’ll learn more that way.

And understand that people who are skilled in the art have been learning for years. Don’t let that dissuade you. Just take it one step at a time and someday you’ll have been learning for years, too. ✋🖐️🖖🤘

Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren’t.

Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.

FFS. How are these ideas remotely patentable in the first place? Software patents are pure dogshit.

Yes but have you considered the amazing power of coal?

Usenet is having a small revival now that Google got out. The spam is gone.

I couldn’t get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.

To quote a friend of mine, “People who support the death penalty trust the government far more than I do.”

But I don’t think he’s entirely right. Many people who support the death penalty simply do not care if occasionally some innocent person gets killed and the actual murderer runs free. They feel it’s a net gain overall so it’s worth it.

I have a Kobo and it does OK. Nothing special.

I will never, ever purchase a book I can’t remove the DRM from.

And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.

It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

I hear what you’re saying, but one thing that comes along with no American investment is no American jobs.

Good God… I don’t even think there’s a place in my entire town that charges that much. :(

Another potential route: your public library. Mine prints for 5¢ per page and has a web interface for uploading documents from anywhere and printing them when you go in.

Working for a publicly-traded company will always make this as bad as possible. People sometimes have better luck with private companies which aren’t beholden to shareholder value.

We had a student graduate and take a job out the gate for $430k about 3 years ago. With a BS. Just an insane number equivalent to $250k in 2001, a number none of my peers were near at the time.

Large salaries like that are certainly a sign of unhealth, and this industry likes to push itself there periodically.

So maybe it doesn’t get back to that point, but I suspect it will return to previous normal levels. TBH, though, I think it will someday go insane again.

Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.

It’ll swing back. It’s not like we’re going to stop needing software, and frankly the software is out there is kind of crap and needs work.

But important lesson for people thinking about getting into the field is to not do it for the money. Do it because you love it.

Supply will fall, demand will rise, salaries will increase, supply will rise, there will be a crash, demand will fall, salaries will fall, supply will fall…

Hero. There’s only one gas station I use that has ads and I’ll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

I think one of Biden’s big missteps was to ban sales to China in the first place.

In the 6 years I’ve been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn’t render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn’t run or weren’t performant.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.